The Senior Special Assistant for Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin
Okupe on Wednesday said it is too early to ask for amnesty for members of the extremist group, Boko Haram.
Mr Okupe, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said comparing the amnesty granted former Niger Delta militants and the demand for amnesty for Boko Haram is illogical.
He said the recent kidnap and reported assassination of seven workers in Bauchi by the sect “undermines any attempt to negotiate and certainly put the idea of amnesty in total jeopardy.”
